VIREL is a website-friendly crawler for microformats. It is primarily focusing on collecting published open microformats embedded in websites.

It searches Websites for Microformats and follows links on Websites to other Websites to continiue its search to the WWW. To learn more about microformats you may want to take a look at http://www.microformats.org/. Right now VIREL is searching for contact informations (hCard) and calendaric informations (hCalendar)

To create a hCard you can use their online version of the hCard-Creator Online hCard Creator or another third party Online hCard Creator or this third-party Online hCalendar Creator

If you like to make your microformats accessible to VIREL you may want to submit your URL to VIREL. VIREL checks this URL in regular intervals for new or updated information embedded in microformats. You can submit your URL here: Submit. A search for ‘Wolfgang’ would look like this:

The search for ‘Wolfgang’ took 0.0199 Seconds and produced 4 matches:

Wolfgang Wiese found at www.webkongress.uni-erlangen.de 44% Integrity
http://www.webkongress.uni-erlangen.de/kontakt.shtml
Last Update: 2008-07-03
hCard vCard DataMatrix

Wolfgang Wiese

Phone:09131 / 85 – 28326
E-Mail: wolfgang.wiese@rrze.uni-erlangen.de

Wolfgang Bartelme found at www.factorycity.net 32% Integrity
http://www.factorycity.net/projects/microformats-icons
Last Update: 2008-07-09
hCard vCard DataMatrix

Wolfgang Bartelme

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